Stefan Mileschin

Valve has confirmed that its new Steam Machine game consoles will use AMD graphics chips and not just Nvidia GPUs.

Prototypes of Valve's Steam Machine consoles, which were seen last week used Intel CPUs and graphics chips made by Nvidia. But a spokesman for Valve Software has confirmed that future designs will use AMD graphics.

At the time of the launch there was a confusing statement from Steam. It said that the graphics hardware which had been selected for the first wave of Steam Machine prototypes included a variety of Nvidia cards. However it warned that it was not indication that Steam Machines are Nvidia-only.

Now it seems that it has clarified that position by saying that there will be Steam Machines with graphics hardware made by AMD, Nvidia, and Intel.

Valve has worked closely with all three of these companies on optimising their hardware for SteamOS, and will continue to do so into the near future, the spokesman said

What is still not clear is if the Steam Machines would actually use AMD's microprocessors, or just still to Intel's creations.

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